The Bridge Recording Studio Build

[LauKeiding]

That's immense. Been a treat to follow the build of such a studio. Have you done scores for movies yet?

[Greg Curtis]

Originally Posted by LauKeiding

That's immense. Been a treat to follow the build of such a studio. Have you done scores for movies yet?

That's what we do: music for picture.

Quick incomplete list off of the top of my head:

Films:
Crazy Stupid Love.
30 Minutes or Less
The Changeup.
Arthur.
Gnomeo and Julliette
X-Men
Source Code
Conan.
Footloose 2011

TV:
The Simpsons
The Cape
No Ordinary Family
Dexter
The Event
Star Wars Clone Wars
Off The Map

Video games: Dragon Age II, Telara Rift, more...

Trailer music, lots of percussion sample sessions, demos...

Some big deal pop stars.
Solo classical piano.

And we've done some really great big bands and small group jazz.

And lots more!

Greg.

[Greg Curtis]

We have been recording the music for the entire series of the #1 rated new show: "Once Upon a Time," Mark Isham, composer.

Also working with these great shows this season:

Person of Interest
Revenge
The Simpsons
Walking Dead
Dexter

Movies:
just completed the score for "Zambezia," with Dennis Sands engineering.

GC

[Greg Curtis]

repost

[PreacherX]

Oh Walking Dead and Dexter, two of my favourites, huge kudos! It'll be even more fun to watch them now!

[deft_bonz]

Originally Posted by Greg Curtis

We have been recording the music for the entire series of the #1 rated new show: "Once Upon a Time," Mark Isham, composer.

Also working with these great shows this season:

Person of Interest
Revenge
The Simpsons
Walking Dead
Dexter

Movies:
just completed the score for "Zambezia," with Dennis Sands engineering.

GC

Dexter is awesome... the new season is getting greater and greater

[Barish]

Man your endeavour is just simply applaudable. What a fantastic enterprise.

I wish you the best of success in business for many years to come. May God bury you up to your waist in cash with this, for you deserve every single note that will fly over your head...

Totally inspiring.

B.

[Greg Curtis]

Thanks! It's a tough business in a dismal economy, but we are still busy.

John Debney is here today, working on a great new tune for "New Year's Eve."

Placido Domingo is coming soon...

Lots of cool Indie film projects rolling through this month.

And the regular TV shows that we so love! These are some of the best post production teams on Earth doing amazing work on an incredibly tight schedule.

Always challenges to meet. Both the unexpected and expected.

GC

[deft_bonz]

I've read thru your thread last night, again, and it's always a pleasure to just look at the pictures. It gives my dreams more hope

[rxeno]

Very nice, can't wit to see how it goes.
Repost duh! Ok now at the end of the thread and apparently very clearly itgoes quite nicely! Well done and congrats.

[Greg Curtis]

Nice blog posting by Chris Ledesma, The Simpson's Music Editor, from a show they scored here recently.

A Day on the Scoring Stage, Chris Ledesma

GC

[Greg Curtis]

1.5 years in:

Television:
FOX Television, “The Simpsons” (Alf Clausen, Rick Riccio,Chris Ledesma)
CBS - “Person of Interest” (Ramin Djawadi, Steve Kaplan)
ABC - “Once Upon A Time” (Mark Isham, Jason La Rocca)
HBO - “Dexter” (Dan Licht, Steve Kaplan)
ABC - “Happy Endings” (Teddy Shapiro, Ludwig Gorensson, Chris Fogel)
AMC - “Walking Dead, Season 2” (Bear McCreary, Steve Kaplan)
ABC - “Revenge” (iZler, Gustavo Borner)
SyFy - “Eureka” (Bear McCreary, Steve Kaplan)
ABC - “Perception” (Tree Adams, Gustavo Borner & Nick Baxter)
FOX Television - “Fringe” (Chris Tilton, Dan Wallin)
NBC - “The Event” - (Scott Starrett, Steve Kaplan, Tim Davies)
ABC - “No Ordinary Family” - (Blake Neely, Jim Hill)
NBC - “The Cape” - 50pc Orchestra Recording (Bear McCreary, Steve Kaplan)
ABC - “Off The Map” - 39pc Orchestra Recording (Ben Decter, Marco D?Ambrosio, Jim Hill)
LucasFilm - “Clone Wars” Taiko Drums and Horns Recording (Kevin Kiner, Mark Evans)
Rachel McFarlane, “Haley Sings” (Alan Sviridoff, Matt Catingub)
TBA - “The Munsters” (Jim Dooley, Steve Kaplan)

Film:
Warner Bros., “Crazy, Stupid, Love” - Motion Picture - (Christophe Beck, Casey Stone)
Warner Bros. , “Arthur,” - Motion Picture - (Teddy Shapiro, Chris Fogel, Bryan Carrigan)
20th Century Fox, “The Big Year” - Motion Picture - (Teddy Shapiro, Chris Fogel, Bryan Carrigan)
Summit Entertainment, “Source Code” - Motion Picture - Mixing Christian Bacon, Shawn Murphy)
Warner Bros., - “Joyful Noise” - Motion Picture, featuring Dolly Parton - Rhythm Section (Mervyn Warren, Frank Wolf)
Disney, “Gnomeo & Juliet” - Motion Picture- Stereo Mixes (Shawn Murphy, Erik Swanson)
20th Century Fox, “X-Men: First Class” - Motion Picture - Choirs (Henry Jackman, Brad Haehnel,)
Universal Pictures, “The Change Up” - Motion Picture - (John Debney, Chris Fogel)
New Line Cinema, “New Years Eve” - Motion Picture - (John Debney, Shawn Murphy, Eric Swanson)
Relativity Media, “Mirror Mirror” - Motion Picture - Mixing (Alan Menken, Frank Wolf,)
Marvel Films, “Avengers” - Motion Picture - 56pc Orchestra Recordings (Christopher Lennertz, Jeff Vaughn)
Universal Pictures, “The Bourne Legacy” - Motion Picture - (James Newton Howard, Alan Meyerson)
Paramount Pictures - “Footloose” - Motion Picture (2011) - (Deborah Lurie, Casey Stone)
Senator Films, “Fireflies in the Garden”- Motion Picture - (Jane Antonia-Cornish, Jim Hill)
Written in the Stars Prod., “Dinner with Fred” -Short Film - (Kyle Malkin, Tom Brissette engr.)
Indiana Jones Fan Film - (George Shaw, John Rodd)
Sonrisas Que Hacen Magia Producciones- “Maktub” - (Nathan Wang, Paco Arango, Joel Iwataki)
USC Student Film, 40pc Orchestra (Corey Wallace, Milton Gutierrez)
Film Documentary, TBA - 12pc Orchestra (Daniel Chan, Milton Gutierrez) Triggerfish, “Zambezia” - Motion Picture - Animated Feature. 52pc Orchestra & Large Choir Recordings (Bruce Reteif, Dennis Sands, Adam Olmstead)
Veteran Films, “Vessel” - (Austin Wintory, Steve Kempster)
Indion Pictures, “Yellow” - Choir Recordings (Aaron Zigman, Michael Stearn) Serac Adventure Films, “High Ground” - Documentary (Chris Bacon, Chris Fogel)

Games:
EA Games - Dragon Age - Large Orchestra Recordings (Inon Zur, John Kurlander, Noah Snyder)
EA Games - Dragon Age, featuring Florence +The Machine - 42 Strings (Inon Zur, Noah Snyder)
Trion Worlds - The Rift: Planes of Telara - Video Game - Large Orchestra Recordings (Inon Zur, Greg Curtis)
Team Ico - Last Guardian - Video Game Commercial - (TK)

Miscellaneous:
Disney, Themepark Tokyo, “Fantasmic” - Mixing project, Savant Productions (Dan Savant, Steve Kempster)
Heartbeat Foundation - 15 Voice Children?s Choir (Brad Cobb)
Reel - Juan Carlos Rodriguez - 15pc Orchestra (Jim Hill)
T-Mobile - “Home for the Holidays” - Grooveworx TV Commercial - 60 voice choir (Gerhard Joost)
McCann Group - “Believe”, featuring Jennifer Hudson -
Weight Watchers - 20pc Orchestra Recordings (Bobby Fernandez)
USC School of Cinematic Arts, Scoring For Motion Pictures and Television program - Various Students with Various Guest Engineers/Mixers (Bobby Fernandez, Joel Iwataki)
Drum Sample Libraries - Taiko Drum & Perc Recording (Paul Denlitir, John Rodd)

Music:
Disney Oahu, “Aulani”, Vocal & Percussion Recordings (Mark Mancina, Steve Kempster)
The Salvation Army Band - Large Orchestra Recordings (Ken Peers)
Elizaveta - Recording Artist, Universal/Motown - 20 Strings (Joel McNeely, Rich Breen, Greg Wells)
Gibao Entertainment - Rudy LaScala - String Orchestra and Brass Section (Milton Gutierrez)
Peter Marshall - 27pc Mixed Group, (Mike Aarvald, Dan Wallin)
Bernard Bayer - Classical Piano Recording, Video Taping and Mixing (Greg Curtis)
Maia Jasper - Chamber Music (Milton Gutierez)
Harry Smallenberg - 12pc Jazz Recordings (Greg Curtis)
Jim Self - 12 Tuba Recording, Tuba Christmas (Shawn Murphy)
Jeremy Zuckerman - Solo Flute Recording (Greg Curtis)
Tim Loo - Quartet Recording (Miton Gutierrez)
Patrick Kirst - 52pc Orchestra (Milton Gutierrez)
Bob McChesney - Horn Section (Mike Aarvald, Dan Wallin)
Marcus Sjowall - Piano/Flute Recordings (Milton Gutierrez)
Peter Erskine - Various Percussion Recordings, featuring Wade Culbreath (Rich Breen)
Brian Wallace - “Skatalites” - 20pc Big Band (Brian Dixon)

[AKStudios]

That is a ridiculously awesome resume`! Props!

[andyspiller]

Wow!

What a fantastic result, Greg. Congratulations.

[muziekschuur]

What mic stands do you use. I have loads of good stuff. But I hate my mic stands and can't seem to find any decent stuff these days.
I'd love some tips.

[Arthur Stone]

I remember these from earlier in the thread:

[Matti]

I just feel happy for you

Matti

[Greg Curtis]

Originally Posted by muziekschuur

What mic stands do you use. I have loads of good stuff. But I hate my mic stands and can't seem to find any decent stuff these days.
I'd love some tips.

We've got:

STARBIRD (10)
MOLES-RICHARDS (3)
DECCA TREE (1)
ATLAS MS25 W/ 5' BOOM (4)
ATLAS M25 (11)
TALL TRIPOD (16)
SHORT TRIPOD (6)
SMALL TRIPOD (7)

The Starbirds are a mix of very old (those white ones, which were painted along the lines by some previous owner, probably Glen-Glenn), and some more recent VTL and Manley incarnations. And we have one mint old one. 10 total Starbirds.

The Moles Richards are like Starbirds, but bigger and clunkier. They come from a company that made/makes lighting and grip rigs. The ones that we have are extremely "vintage." We have them as standby reserves.

The DECCA tree was custom made by Tom Steel, the Stage Manager at the now defunct Todd-AO/CBS Radford. The counterweight is at least 50lbs, perfect for the trio of M250s that reside here.

These large mic stands, and about 2 dozen of the smaller stands, we got as part of a large buy-out of equipment from the dismantling of Paramount Stage M and the CBS-Radford/Todd AO stages.

Here's a pic from today, the setup for tomorrow morning's recording session for FOX Television's "Fringe." You can see some of the newer Starbirds. (taken with an iPhone using Pano)



Greg

[Greg Curtis]

Another Pano shot, this time of a 38-piece setup. Very open room. The great engineer, John Richards, presiding.



(iPhone pic with Pano, 3 shots stitched together)

g

[Fleaman]

Originally Posted by Greg Curtis

Here's a pic from today, the setup for tomorrow morning's recording session for FOX Television's "Fringe."

By far my fav fiction tv show. Actually the only fiction show I watch.

Glad to hear you're part of that, what a privilege

Is the whole score of that show live? How much studio time used for 1 show?

[johndykstra]

Originally Posted by Fleaman

By far my fav non-fiction tv show. Actually the only non-fiction show I watch.

huh? what world you living in?

[Fleaman]

Oops

Guess my mind was in the Alterverse

Anyway, I'm back and corrected my post.

[jeremy.c.]

Originally Posted by Fleaman

Oops

Guess my mind was in the Alterverse

Anyway, I'm back and corrected my post.

Ha! That's really funny because I'm watching previous seasons via netflix right now, I'm into it, but I thought you were making a joke about the non-fiction thing.

[Greg Curtis]

Originally Posted by Fleaman

Is the whole score of that show live? How much studio time used for 1 show?

Most TV shows take about 3 hours to score one episode.

The legendary Danny Wallin engineers that show.

-Greg

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[Syncamorea]

Thanks for the panos! It would be fun to shoot a full spherical pan beside the podium during a session rehearsal!

[Greg Curtis]

OK. Here are some blogs that we are featured in:

Composer Bear McCreary's awesome blog. He composes for "Walking Dead," and "Eureka!" Check out the videos on his site:

Bear McCreary

The Simpsons recorded the score for their 500th episode here. Check out Chris Ledesma's (music editor for all 500 episodes!) amazing blog for tons of great information, as well as some great photo's from that session (and past sessions):

Simpsons 500

It's so humbling to be a part of all of this.

Greg

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[Trev@Circle]

Wow. Very cool indeed. Congrats Greg. You deserve it!

[Brian Ralston]

Greg,

Great work on The Bridge! Nice to see the photos from beginning to end. And thank you for giving LA another great place to record our wonderful musicians. I am very much looking forward to my session for Crooked Arrows there next month.

Cheers!

Brian Ralston
Composer, Crooked Arrows
Official Web Site of Film/TV Composer Brian Ralston

[Greg Curtis]

Originally Posted by Brian Ralston

Greg,

Great work on The Bridge! Nice to see the photos from beginning to end. And thank you for giving LA another great place to record our wonderful musicians. I am very much looking forward to my session for Crooked Arrows there next month.

Cheers!

Brian Ralston
Composer, Crooked Arrows
Official Web Site of Film/TV Composer Brian Ralston

I can't wait to have you here! The project looks great!

[Greg Curtis]

Just a reminder that The Simpsons 500th episode, scored here at The Bridge Recording, airs tonight. If anything, just check it out for the outstanding awe-inspiring opening couch gag; it's like seeing your life flash before your eyes.